Activism Quotes - Page 2

• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Change, Presidential

  Bettina Stiekel, Jimmy Carter, Various (2003). “The Nobel Book of Answers: The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People”, Simon and Schuster

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• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  Sally Kirkland

  New York, Revolution, Factors

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• Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

  Bill Hybels

  Thinking, Years, Church

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• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  Margot Kidder

  Choices, Busy

  "No kidding". Interview with Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

  Michael Kinsley

  Years, Another Year, Conservative

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• Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Judicial, Traditional

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

  Bayard Rustin

  Country, Spring, Oneness

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• ...We have an historic opportunity for a great global healing and renewal. If we will accept the challenge of nonviolent activism with faith, courage, and determination, we can bring this great vision of a world united in peace and harmony from a distant ideal into glowing reality.

  Coretta Scott King

  Peace, Determination, Healing

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• My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Spring, Gay, Grandparent

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  Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 11 Dec. 1986

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• It's still easier to take a blow from outside than it is to be disgusted with myself for not taking a stand. I don't know how people can live and not fight back but apparently millions do. They must hate themselves.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Courage, Hate, Fighting

  Rita Mae Brown (1987). “Poems”

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• I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

  Angelina Jolie

  Issues, People, Hopeful

  "MTV to Air Trip by Jolie to Africa", www.foxnews.com. March 30, 2006.

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• Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.

  Carol Tavris

  Crazy, Anger, Hero

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• Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

  Mark Mobius

  Believe, Responsibility, Progress

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• You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  Talib Kweli

  Struggle, Order, Empowering

  "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Trying, Showing Up

  "Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be". Wired interview, www.wired.com. July 25, 2012.

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Equality, Would Be, Recipes

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• Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.

  Michael Kinsley

  Claims, Judicial, Courses

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• The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.

  Yang Lan

  Strong, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

  Alice Walker

  Compassion, Helping Others, Volunteer

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• One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Religious, Responsibility

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.60, Beacon Press

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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